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Cohen family
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51331
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Black, White
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Black, White
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Polish
- Notes
- b&w, group portrait of from right to left: Chana Rayzl Mandel, Sara, Dorath, Dorath’s husband Narrative: Harry Cohen was born in Poland and had immigrated to Montreal. In the summer of 1939, he returned to Poland to take care of family affairs (presumabley following his mother's death) leaving his four children behind. His wife had already passed away. The war broke out and Harry was unable to leave Poland. HE was hiding with a Christian family but was finally deported to Auschwitz. He was presumably killed in Auschwitz, which would make him the only Canadian citizen known to have been murdered in the camp. The prayer shawl was returned to Harry Cohen's children in Septembe or October 1945 by a Polish woman who claimed to have hidden Harry before his deportation.along the shwal were also sent Harry's prayer book and unsigned traveller’s cheques.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.100.02
- Name Access
- Cohen, Manuel (Manny)
- Places
- Opatow, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Dorath Cohen and her children
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn51332
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Black, White
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : Black, White
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [ca. 1920]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w, indoors. Dorath Cohen poses standing up with one toddler in her arms and another child standing on her chair beside her.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.100.03
- Name Access
- Cohen, Manuel (Manny)
- Places
- Opatow, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn78281
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : beige, black , blue, purple ; Ht: 17,1 cm x W: 10,1 cm
- Date
- [Later than 1923]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : Paper : printed, handwritten : Ink : beige, black , blue, purple ; Ht: 17,1 cm x W: 10,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- [Later than 1923]
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- Hebrew
- Notes
- Double-panel membership ? card for the Central Zionist department of Poland. Two-sided. On the second page is stapled a b&w identity photograph of a woman, below it are three ink stamps. The card is made to Szoel Erman his wife Laja (Leah) and son Majer (Meir)'s names appear with their birth year on the verso b.c. Narrative: Szoel (Saul) Erman was originally from Opatow (Poland). During World War II, he was sent to Auschwitz death camp (Poland) as a political prisoner and was later killed in Schasenhausen concentration camp (Germany). His wife and son both survived the Holocaust.
- Accession No.
- 1991.14.05
- Name Access
- Erman, Meir
- Places
- Opatow, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Invitation
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50326
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Invitation : Paper : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Date
- February 17, 1923
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Invitation : Paper : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 3,75 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- February 17, 1923
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Yiddish
- Notes
- Double-sided, one page. At the top is a rectangular header with a decorative border. Narrative: Official wedding invitation addressed to Abram Elberg. It contains the informations about the donor's parents wedding.
- Accession No.
- 1991.14.04
- Name Access
- Erman, Meir
- Places
- Opatow, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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